Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in ...

Connecticut-based composer Brian Field doesn’t just work in a number of different styles and scales, from a flute and tuba duet to a harp soloist fronting a symphony orchestra, the writers whose works ...

Where love and music used to be. A tree is something in me, Very still and lonely now. Born in 1902, Arna Bontemps had this short poem selected for inclusion in a landmark anthology of Black ...

“We have a lot of good music this year, and its not being played ... The Beginning of a Journey (Peepal Tree Press) by Earl Lovelace presents poems from the renowned author’s early career ...

The poem is a tribute to the spirit of India, capturing the essence of its rich culture, diverse traditions, and the strength that comes from its unity. It celebrates the beauty of India's ...

He was dishonest, smelly and short. Not your type at all ... The full-throated music of the poem might have a similar effect on the reader. The cascading rhymes and trippy images conjure a ...

The only thing they did do ahead of time was send each other music and poems. As Hahn also tells us, this project was very different from the previous show she and Plaza had starred in together ...

Her musical background is beautifully reflected in this poem, as she uses metaphors like the buildup to an epic piece of music ... This is a short poem with immeasurable depth.

This tender offering from Antrobus (To Sweeten Bitter) delves into new fatherhood, with an ominous, deeply felt question hanging over it: “why have children/ when the world is ending?” The ...

Video game adaptations of novels and short stories have long helped bring ... labyrinth and riddle poems from centuries past. There’s also a form Higgins calls “leonine verse”, which ...

While this short poem is far from being romantic ... Native American and English ancestry, studied music and wrote poems and plays. When she moved to Washington, D.C., her house became a gathering ...

Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks have both shared poems on the physical version of ... She also shared the trailer for her upcoming ‘Fortnight’ music video, which will star Post Malone.